Other delicious things...

It's another 90 degree day, which means that our stuffy little apartment is freezing. No wait, that makes sense. Because our place doesn't really breathe very well, when the day is really hot, you basically have to run the AC (we have two, a window unit and a portable unit) all day, along with a batch of fans. If you don't, at some point the heat will build up and it will be 85 inside and horrible. That means that all morning it's like in the 60s. But if you wait or keep stuff off or on low, it won't have the power to cool when things get really blazing. Plus the place never cools off at night, even when it's cool outside and we have every window and door open.

Stupid.

Last night the Hub whipped up an amazing dinner in like no time flat. He'd run by the local world foods for fresh hot pitas and dolmas. Then he cooked up some ground lamb with lots of wonderful spices (garam masala, garlic, onions, etc.). I prepped lettuce made a yogurt sauce. We filled our pitas with lamb, sauce, lettuce, and leftover couscous from yesterday's dinner.

Yesterday's dinner was the couscous (with chopped veggies and spices) and grilled chicken with pomegranate / honey glaze. The chicken was OMG good.

I recently made a batch of bran molasses muffins -- very dense, very good.

Ham went blueberry picking with a friend and we've been eating blueberries in and with everything. It's too hot for pie and I didn't have enough for jelly, but I froze some in for this winter and we'll just gnaw our way through the rest. Blueberries rock! When I was growing up in Southern New Mexico, berries were my very favorite fruits. But they were rare treats because they didn't grow at all well in our dry alkaline soil and desert climate. Here's it's berry central! One more reason I love the Pacific Northwest.

For my birthday I will be getting some paints, which I am very excited about.